A round of applause for this year’s Women of Influence award winners, who were recognized at the Executive Women’s Forum. The awards are cosponsored by CSO magazine and Alta Associates. And the winners are...

Cheryl Peace (Public Sector), Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center Office, Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. Peace shapes and integrates processes, policy and intelligence within the Department of Defense and in coordination with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Maggie Mansourkia (One to Watch), assistant general counsel and chief privacy counsel for Verizon Communications. Mansourkia was recognized for helping develop new privacy standards and for making privacy reviews part of all internal audits and mandatory for new products and services.

Jayshree Ullal (Private Solutions Provider), SVP and general manager of the security and technology group at Cisco. Judges noted that she excels at ”building strong, talented and competitive teams focused on achieving goals.”

Renee Guttmann-Stark (Corporate Practitioner), information security officer for Time and Time Warner Corporate. Guttmann-Stark is responsible for the security of 600,000 employee records, 150 million customer records and 150 websites.